American Political Science Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Political Science Review is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Notes from the Editors: Research Notes91
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism85
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric84
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet84
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China71
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification68
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM55
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates53
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM53
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom49
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis46
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States46
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior45
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India44
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes43
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach43
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election42
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites42
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements40
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors40
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination39
Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance38
Structural Responsibility38
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America37
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–202037
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection36
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa35
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension34
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress34
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia33
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability33
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice33
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act32
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative31
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings31
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations31
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd31
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy30
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity30
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation27
Curation Bubbles27
What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans27
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data27
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution26
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How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?26
Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age25
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings25
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution24
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced24
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes24
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM24
“Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won”: Union Veterans and the Making of Radical Reconstruction24
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe24
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”23
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies23
Elite Cues and Noncompliance23
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Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act23
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures22
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico22
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes22
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty22
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM22
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy21
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism21
Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology21
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War21
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy21
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South21
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup20
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries20
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico20
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States20
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice20
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing20
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared20
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank20
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices20
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship19
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques19
Does Competence Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?19
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM19
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform19
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism18
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests18
Partisan Leaning18
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations17
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders17
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party17
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany17
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy17
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change17
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle16
The Class Ceiling in Politics16
How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records16
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How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact16
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals16
“Moderates”16
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below16
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization16
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis16
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes16
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities15
The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–202215
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM15
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia15
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians15
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria15
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe15
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Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber14
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation14
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes14
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category14
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion14
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation13
The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’sEvery Twelve Seconds13
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems13
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Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming12
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece12
Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots – CORRIGENDUM12
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Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models12
Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule12
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism12
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators12
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Nietzsche’s Critique of Power: Mimicry and the Advantage of the Weak12
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM12
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust12
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma12
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies12
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism12
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism12
Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?12
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data11
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level11
Race, Democracy, and Public Support for War11
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-1911
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire11
Migration and the Demand for Transnational Justice11
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community11
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White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash10
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Cooperation Despite Conflicting Historical Narratives10
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Durkheim’s Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and Its Colonial Dimension10
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils10
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Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil10
Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?9
Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas9
Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization9
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From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People?9
Taking Stock of Solidarity between People of Color: A Mini Meta-Analysis of Five Experiments9
The Right to Hunger Strike9
“Outside Lobbying” over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads9
Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession through Strategic Occupation9
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains9
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism9
The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism9
Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies9
State Legitimacy and Sector-Level Claim-Making: Evidence from East Jerusalem8
Violence and Voting in the United States: How School Shootings Affect Elections8
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience8
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization8
The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery8
Institutional Forbearance as a Mechanism of Democratic Stability8
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam8
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods8
Rebel Motivations and Repression8
Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India8
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid8
Democratic Deepening or Elite Persistence? How Local Elites Adapt to Electoral Reform in Rural India7
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security7
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan7
Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia7
“Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment7
Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism7
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base7
Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers7
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Rethinking the Coloniality of Race: Blood Purity and the Politics of Periodization7
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis7
Motivated Reasoning and Democratic Accountability7
The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey7
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home7
Notes from the Editors7
Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior7
The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media7
Crediting Invisible Work: Congress and the Lawmaking Productivity Metric (LawProM)7
The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe7
“Problems of an Other’s Making”: B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, and Majoritarian Domination6
The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China’s Great Leap Famine – Expression of Concern6
Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements6
The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability6
Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights6
Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies6
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The Creative Advance Must Be Defended: Miscegenation, Metaphysics, and Race War in Jan Smuts’s Vision of the League of Nations6
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies6
Notes from the Editors: Review Transfers6
Democracy and the Epistemic Problems of Political Polarization6
Equality, Reciprocity, or Need? Bolstering Welfare Policy Support for Marginalized Groups with Distributive Fairness6
A New Measure of Affective Polarization6
Strategies of Green Industrial Policy: How States Position Firms in Global Supply Chains6
Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform: The Foundations for Democracy in Scandinavia6
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes6
The Influence of Unknown Media on Public Opinion: Evidence from Local and Foreign News Sources6
Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences6
Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization6
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White Democrats’ Growing Support for Black Politicians in the Era of the “Great Awokening”6
Reducing Prejudice toward Refugees: Evidence That Social Networks Influence Attitude Change in Uganda6
Greed, Envy, and Admiration: The Distinct Nature of Public Opinion about Redistribution from the Rich6
State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries6
The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests – CORRIGENDUM6
Notes from the Editors6
They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home6
How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments5
From Protest to Child-Rearing: How Movement Politics Shape Socialization Priorities5
Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics5
The Gendered Impact of Corruption Revelations: Unveiling the Role of Parties and Voters in Mexico5
Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition5
Demand and Supply of Criminal Governance: Experimental Evidence from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador5
What Kind of Identity is Partisan Identity? “Social” versus “Political” Partisanship in Divided Democracies5
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The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us5
Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation5
Bribes and Bombs: The Effect of Corruption on Terrorism5
The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy—CORRIGENDUM5
Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters5
Development in Decolonization: Walter Rodney, Third World Developmentalism, and “Decolonizing Political Theory”5
Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability5
Women Also Know Stuff: Challenging the Gender Gap in Political Sophistication5
Serious Conflicts with Benign Outcomes? The Electoral Consequences of Conflictual Cabinet Terminations5
Language, Skin Tone, and Attitudes toward Puerto Rico in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria5
Voter Outreach Campaigns Can Reduce Affective Polarization among Implementing Political Activists: Evidence from Inside Three Campaigns5
Meritocracy as Authoritarian Co-Optation: Political Selection and Upward Mobility in China5
Drinking Tea with the Neighbors: Informal Clubs, General Trust, and Trustworthiness in Mali4
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State Violence, Party Formation, and Electoral Accountability: The Political Legacy of the Marikana Massacre4
Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Interdependence and Public Goods in Cities4
Foundations of a New Democracy: Schooling, Inequality, and Voting in the Early Republic4
Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa4
Notes from the Editors: Increasing Qualitative Submissions4
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